"A Young Naturalist Inspires With Joy, Not Doom"
"At 17, Dara McAnulty is becoming one of Britain’s most acclaimed nature writers, with work that touches on his autism as much as the world around his home."
Source: NYTimes, 07/08/2021
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Canadian Governments Spent $23 Billion Supporting 3 Pipelines Since 2018
"A new report finds Canadian governments have provided billions to support pipelines — none of which have been completed to date — even as experts worry pipelines themselves undermine progress on climate goals".
Source: The Narwhal, 07/07/2021"Tribes Say Voting Access Hurt By US Supreme Court Ruling"
"The largest Native American reservation in the U.S. includes parts of three Arizona counties, all of which had different approaches to precinct voting in the 2020 general election."
Source: AP, 07/07/2021Shrinking For Years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake Now Faces A Drought
"The receding water is affecting wildlife and could send arsenic-laced dust into the air that millions breathe".
Source: AP, 07/07/2021"‘Megadrought’ Along Border Strains US-Mexico Water Relations"
"The United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall."
Source: The Conversation, 07/07/2021"White House Announces New Rules For Labeling Meat 'Product of USA'"
"The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will issue new rules for defining when meat can be labeled a "product of USA" in an effort to boost American farmers."
Source: The Hill, 07/07/2021Sporadic Environmental Voters Could Turn Red States Blue
"A new report from the Environmental Voter Project claims to have identified a hidden voting bloc in nine states: low-propensity environmental voters."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/07/2021Corpus Christi Black Neighbors Feel Like They Are in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’
"Boxed in by refineries, oil tanks, an interstate highway and a bridge under construction, the people are left in a hollowed-out neighborhood and a broken community."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/07/2021"Black And Latinx Hairdressers Exposed To High Levels Of Phthalates"
"A pilot study is the latest evidence that women of color are disproportionately impacted by hormone-mimicking chemicals from hair care products."
Source: EHN, 07/07/2021"Fox’s New Channel Changes the Climate for Weather TV"
"As viewers tune out cable news, Rupert Murdoch is preparing the debut of Fox Weather, a potentially powerful new player in a sphere long dominated by the Weather Channel."
"Weather is taking the media industry by storm.
Source: NYTimes, 07/07/2021"How Bad Are U.S. Wildfires? Even Hawaii Is Battling a Surge."
"It’s among the wettest places on the planet, but shifts in rainfall, invasive grasses and a housing shortage are driving a wildfire spike on the islands."
Source: NYTimes, 07/07/2021"Honduran Court Finds Construction Exec Guilty In Activist's Murder"
"A former top executive of a Honduran construction firm was found guilty on Monday of being a collaborator in the 2016 murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres, a judge said in a court ruling."
Source: Reuters, 07/06/2021"Oregon Gov. Says Too Many Lives Lost During Record-Breaking Heat Wave"
"Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) said Sunday that too many people in the state died during the unprecedented heat wave that settled over the Pacific Northwest last week, warning the climate change-fueled temperature extremes were only a “harbinger of things to come.”"
Source: HuffPost, 07/06/2021New Day for Long-Suffering Neighbors after Huge Phila. Refinery Fire
"The petroleum smell is gone, the benzene emissions have abated and residents in nearby neighborhoods of color feel they’re finally being heard."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/06/2021Oil Firm's Plan To Abandon 1,700 Gulf Wells Risks 'Environmental Disaster'
"A Houston oil company that grew into one of the largest producers in the Gulf of Mexico before going bust last year is planning to abandon hundreds of oil wells and pipelines it acquired over the last decade, potentially adding to the fast-growing tangle of neglected oil and gas infrastructure off the Louisiana coast."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 07/06/2021
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